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It's hard to imgine how our weakened country (and global economy) could respond to the kind of historial calamity experts say a major Cascadia Fault and Tsunami is cappable of.
Potential scenarios are off the charts horrific on a magnitude modern man has never come close to facing.

I'm more worried about the impact of a super earthquake taking out one Columbia River dam and causing a chain-reaction of downriver dam failures. The end result would be a tsunami-like wave hitting smack right on downtown Portland, as well as taking out Portland International Airport, downtown Vancouver, all of our harbor, and all of the downriver communities all the way to Astoria.

Statistically speaking, more people have died from dam failures than nuclear reactor meltdowns (however, you gotta give the Chinese credit in building a megadam right above a major city.)